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Fruit of the Nation

Madhavankutty Pillai

Sopan Joshi’s encyclopaedic biography of the mango reveals why it is intrinsic to India. The author in conversation with

Mangifera Indica: A Biography of the Mango

Mangifera Indica: A Biography of the Mango

Sopan Joshi

FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist /

FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist

Janeita Singh

Souza’s Gaze

The life and legacy of the artist with a female fetish

The Lion and the Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh /

The Lion and the Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh

Ira Mukhoty

The French Connection

Urvashi Bahuguna

Ira Mukhoty uses alternative histories in her portrait of Awadh. She tells how the old Western point of view has become dated

This Land We Call Home: The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India /

This Land We Call Home: The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India

Nusrat F Jafri

Mapping Home

Sharanya Manivannan

The interwoven histories of a family and a country

Darako /

Parashar Kulkarni

Spittle Parable

A satire set around a paan shop in colonial India

Nehru’s First Recruits: The Diplomats who Built Independent India’s Foreign Policy /

Nehru’s First Recruits: The Diplomats who Built Independent India’s Foreign Policy

Kallol Bhattacherjee

India International

The country’s diplomatic history through its early recruits

The Hanuman Chalisa /

The Hanuman Chalisa

Translated by Vikram Seth

Poetic Licence

What is lost in Vikram Seth’s wonderful translation of Hanuman Chalisa is bhakti

Rosarita /

Anita Desai

‘Writing is a bad habit of mine. I have never stopped,’ says Anita Desai

Anita Desai returns after more than a decade with the story of a young woman in Mexico. She speaks about why writers are outsiders

Imperial Games in Tibet: The Struggle for Statehood and Sovereignty /

Imperial Games in Tibet: The Struggle for Statehood and Sovereignty

Dilip Sinha

How India Lost the Case on Tibet

How India Lost the Case on Tibet: Nehru ignored red flags, misread communist China and the implications for India’s security

A Firestorm in Paradise: A Novel On The 1857 Uprising /

A Firestorm in Paradise: A Novel On The 1857 Uprising

Rana Safvi

Love in the Lost City

A historian’s first novel is a romance set in 1857

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